Background
Litwack, Leon Frank was born on December 2, 1929 in Santa Barbara, California, United States. Son of Julius and Minnie (Nitkin) Litwack.
(Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award ...)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in "the peculiar institution." Contents 1. "The Faithful Slave" 2. Black Liberators 3. Kingdom Comin' 4. Slaves No More 5. How Free is Free? 6. The Feel of Freedom: Moving About 7. Back to Work: The Old Compulsions 8. Back to Work: The New Dependency 9. The Gospel and the Primer 10. Becoming a People
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394743989/?tag=2022091-20
( ". . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of...)
". . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. In his clear, lucid account of the Northern phase of the story Professor Litwack has performed a notable service."—John Hope Franklin, Journal of Negro Education "For a searching examination of the North Star Legend we are indebted to Leon F. Litwack. . . ."—C. Vann Woodward, The American Scholar
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226485862/?tag=2022091-20
Litwack, Leon Frank was born on December 2, 1929 in Santa Barbara, California, United States. Son of Julius and Minnie (Nitkin) Litwack.
Bachelor, University of California, Berkeley, 1951; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1958.
Assistant professor, then associate professor of history, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1958-1965;
member of faculty, University of California, Berkeley, since 1965;
professor of history, University of California, Berkeley, since 1971;
Alexander F. and May T. Morrison professor of history, University of California, Berkeley, since 1987;
director, National Defense Education Act Institute American History, summer 1965. Visiting professor University of Southern California, 1975, Colorado College, September 1974, 79, Louisiana State University, 1985. Fulbright professor American history U. Sydney, Australia, 1991, Moscow (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics) State University, 1980.
Visiting lecturer Peking U., (China), 1982. Walter Lynwood Fleming lecturer Louisiana State University, 1983. Wentworth scholar-in-residence U. Florida, Spring 1983.
Member National Afro-American History and Culture Commission, 1981-1983. Member screening committee Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards, 1983-1986. Board academic advisors The American Experience Station WGBH-television, since 1986, Africans in America, WGBH-television, since 1990.
Ford Foundation professor Southern studies U. Mississippi, 1989. Member Executive Committee of deals American Council of Learned Socs., 1993-1996.
(Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award ...)
( ". . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of...)
(". . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of N...)
Member Bradley Commission on History in Schools, 1987-1990, Schomburg Commission for the Preservation of Black Culture. Trustee National Council for History Education, 1990-1996, member steering committee 1994 NAEP History Consensus Project. Chair University California Academy Senate Library.
Committee 1995-1997. Served with Army of the United States, 1953-1955. Member Organization American Historians (chairman nominations board 1975-1976, executive board 1983-1985, president 1986-1987), American History Association (chairman program committee 1980-1981), Southern History Association (board directors 2003-2005, president since 2007), Southern Historian Association (president 2007-2008), American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Antiquarian Society, University California Alumni Association, Association for the Study African American Life and History, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center.
Married Rhoda Lee Goldberg, July 5, 1952. Children: John Michael, Ann Katherine.